Nicolas Mahut and Roger Federer won a highly entertaining quarter-final contest 7-6(3), 6-7(5), 11-9 against Chardy and Grigor Dimitrov, which lasted 1 hour and 41 minutes. . Federer is looking to win the singles and doubles crowns at the same tournament for the first time since 2005 Halle..

Federer: "I had good fun, it was tense out there, so I'm happy we got the win."

Here's vidoe highlights

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a Roger Federer to smile.

Unfortunately I was not able to watch this match live so am looking forward to the full match video being posted by Brisbane International. From the highlights, it seemed to be great fun for players and audience alike ~ plenty of smiling faces, though with such a close scoreline over 3 long sets it would have been tense.

From Roger's point of view I can understand why he has chosen to play doubles at Brisbane ... ideal to sharpen the reactions at the net, the speed of shots between the players at the net was incredible!

.... peRFection ~ it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice

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What a way to welcome the new year. I not very much for doubles but this game was really something. Lovely to see the RF smile. Mahut looks totally amazed at the freak shot and everyone is enjoying every second. Txs.